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It
takes
a
tenacious
business
owner
to
hold
a
small
business
together
in
today's
economy.
But
sometimes,
tenacity
isn't
enough. In
fact,
small
and
midsize
business
owners
have
overwhelmingly
stated
that
the
biggest
inhibitor
to
growth
right
now
is
the
availability
of
financing
(or
lack
thereof).
Without
financing,
many
small
businesses
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Three
more
reads
worth
sharing
as
you
pack
your
bags
and
build
your
agenda
for
Information
On
Demand
2011:
Software
acquisition
strategy
draws
top
marks
from
top
analystFirst,
from
the
analyst
firm
Pund-IT,
Charles
King
gives
top
marks
to
IBM's
software
acquisition
strategy,
calling
it
"an
implicit
model"
for
other
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Each
year,
the
IBM
Beacon
Awards
recognize
the
most
innovative
solutions
from
IBM
Business
Partners.
Spanning
a
wide
range
of
solutions
and
markets
in
support
of
Smarter
Planet,
winning
solutions
consistently
demonstrate
exemplary
value
by
solving
real
business
issues
for
clients.
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How
did
you
greet
the
new
and
improved
Facebook?
If
you
took
to
Facebook
to
complain
about
Facebook
and
demanded
the
old
Facebook
come
back,
you
certainly
weren't
alone.
Last
Tuesday's
rollout
drew
what
could
be
a
record
amount
of
complaints
from
the
site's
750
million
users.
Don't
blame
Mark
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Quite
a
few
of
today's
buzzwords
don't
mean
anything
definite
either
to
the
people
who
are
listening
or
talking.
If
'Application
Lifecycle
Management'
(ALM)
seems
to
you
to
fall
into
this
group,
though,
I
would
argue
it
shouldn't.
In
fact,
I
bet
I
could
get
across
the
gist
of
it
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'Hey
guys,
it's
ready!'Anyone
remember
The
Frantics?
Am
I
dating
myself?
Don't
answer
that.
Back
in
the
'80s,The
Frantics
were
Canada's
answer
to
Monty
Python.
One
of
their
recurring
bits
involved
Paul
Chato
(the
geeky
one)
inventing
a
new
video
game.
Like
Kramer
on
Seinfeld,
he'd
burst
into
the
room
unannounced
and
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When
it
comes
to
security,
the
challenges
we
face
today
are,
in
many
ways,
familiar
business
and
IT
challenges.
Based
on
the
events
of
the
last
year,
two
really
significant
questions
have
come
to
the
forefront
of
the
security
conversation.
The
first
is
around
the
level
of
investment
and
how
to
more
strategically
prioritize
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I
have
had
the
distinct
honor
of
working
with
the
IBM
X-Force
team
since
2006,
and
manage
security
marketing
for
IBM
across
all
of
the
various
brands
that
contribute
to
build
our
overall
security
story.
Twice
a
year,
the
X-Force
team
compiles
all
of
the
research,
data,
trends,
myths…that
are
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